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5 Hot Dividend Stocks Set to Profit From the $890 Billion Energy Boom

High-yielding dividend growth stocks have historically had the best long-term performance and this article highlights five such companies that are set to profit from one of the largest energy booms in history.

Numerous studies show that high-yielding dividend growth stocks generate the best long-term total returns. For example, between 1972 and 2004 dividend growth companies in the S&P 500 outperformed their non-dividend peers by an average of 122% annually.

Each of these five companies/MLPs is set to continue its winning streak, fueled by America's historic energy boom, which is estimated to require $890 billion in investment through 2026. This is projected to create as many as 1.1 million jobs and singlehandedly raise America's GDP growth rate by as much as .75% per year.

Market-crushing returns from oil and gas pipelines

MLP

Yield

10 year Projected Annual Distribution Growth

10 Year Projected Annual Earnings Growth

10 Year Projected Annual Total Return

Enterprise Transfer Partners

6.60%

4.03%

4%

10.63%

Energy Transfer Equity

2.60%

18.46%

18.70%

21.30%

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners

6.90%

5.74%

7.90%

12.64%

Kinder Morgan Management

7.20%

5.74%

7.90%

12.94%

Kinder Morgan Inc

4.70%

7.96%

8.70%

12.66%

S&P 500

9.20%

Sources: S&P Capital IQ, Yahoo! Finance, Moneychimp.com

Energy Transfer Partners and its general partner, Energy Transfer Equity, are likely to grow rich from three major energy trends: natural gas-fueled energy generation, use of natural gas liquids (NGLs) for petrochemicals, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.

Bloomberg estimates that gas-fired electricity capacity grew by 13.6% between 2010 and 2013 despite a 1.6% decrease in overall energy demand. The company estimates this will grow by another 17% through 2020. Kinder Morgan estimates this will grow demand by 7.2 billion cubic feet/day (bcf/d) by 2024.

Meanwhile, NGL production is expected to soar 60% by 2020 to over 1 million bpd.

This will provide cheaper feedstocks for the petrochemical industry, which is investing $176 billion to build, overhaul, and construct infrastructure for 148 chemical facilities along the Gulf Coast.

LNG exports are a major way America will deal with the excess gas produced by our estimated 56% increase in gas production through 2040.

Through April, the Department of Energy has approved six export facilities with capacity of 9.3 bcf/d, 12.6% of 2014 gas production. Total proposed export projects total 30.55 bcf/d representing 30% of 2024 projected gas production.

Energy Transfer Partners is part of the Energy Transfer $90 billion empire that spans what is soon to be five MLPs with a total of:

61,900 miles of pipelines

42 storage and export terminals

25 processing facilities

6,400 gas stations

Recently Energy Transfer Partners announced plans to construct a 400-mile NGL pipeline connecting the Marcellus/Utica shale, whose production is expected to increase 34-fold from 2007-2035, to its Panhandle Eastern pipeline. The 2.2 bcf/d project will be expandable to 3.25 bcf/d and has already received large, firm commitments from three major gas shippers, who are willing to take equity stakes to fund the project.

On the LNG export front, Energy Transfer Partners is partnering with Energy Transfer Equity to construct the $9 billion Trunkline LNG export facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The facility is set to open in 2019 and export 15 million metric tons/year. To finance the project Energy Transfer Partners will launch a new MLP, retaining 100% of general partner and incentive distribution rights (IDRs).

Kinder Morgan: best growth lies ahead

Kinder Morgan, in addition to the three energy trends reported above, has two more major trends into which to invest $30.4 billion over the next few years. These are: growing gas exports to Mexico and exports of ultra-sweet crude oil (condensates). Since just December of 2013 Kinder Morgan has signed an additional 2.8 bcf/d of gas volumes, representing a 8.5% increase in systemwide volume, to come online by 2017. This expansion only represents $1.5 billion in investments for Kinder Morgan, illustrating just how massive Kinder's growth runway is.

Kinder Morgan's single largest asset is the El Paso Natural Gas (EPNG) system, consisting of 10,141 miles of pipelines connecting California to gas fields in the San Juan, Permian, and Anadarko basins. Kinder Morgan recently signed a 25-year agreement to connect and expand the EPNG and Sierrita gas pipeline system to export gas to northern Mexico.

Kinder Morgan's LNG efforts include an expansion of its Elba Island facility, which will receive an additional 8.4 bcf of storage capacity and 0.9 bcf/d of export capacity. Kinder Morgan is also building the Elba Express pipeline which will transport 1.2 bcf/d of gas to supply the terminal's growth.

Finally, Kinder Morgan is set to cash in on the commerce departments recent permit approval for ultra-sweet crude oil exports (in the form of minimally refined condensates) by partnering with Magellan Midstream Partners on the Double Eagle condensate pipeline.

The 100,000 bpd pipeline will connect the Eagle Ford shale, whose booming production is 27% condensate to export facilities in Corpus Christi, Texas. Kinder Morgan is hoping to expand its crude and condensate pipeline system to 250,000 bpd by 2016.

Foolish Takeaway

Energy Transfer Equity, Energy Transfer Partners, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, Kinder Morgan Inc, and Kinder Morgan Management all represents high-quality, high income, dividend/distribution growth investments to take advantage of America's record smashing energy bonanza. All five are likely to outperform the market in terms of total returns for at least the next decade but probably much longer.

Author

Adam Galas is an energy writer for The Motley Fool and a retired Army Medical Services Officer. After serving his country in the global war on terror, he has come home to serve investors by teaching them how to invest better in order to achieve their financial dreams.
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